We’re discussing The Giver by Lois Lowry today as part of The Stacks Book Club with guest, Sue Thomas aka Traci’s mom. The Giver is an award winning classic children’s book about a utopia and what we sacrifice for peace and stability. Today we focus in on communal memory, how children learn about atrocities, and the ways in which we read novels differently.
There are spoilers in this episode.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Newbery Medal
- The Little Mermaid (John Musker and Ron Clements, 1989)
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- Newbery Award Acceptance Speech – Lois Lowry (June 1994)
- Carl Gustaf Nelson
- The Giver Movie (Phillip Noyce, 2014)
- Meryl Streep
- Taylor Swift
- Jeff Bridges
- Netflix
- Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
- Black Lives Matter
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965)
- Email Traci at The Stacks
- Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe
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